Quotes about Ignorance
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
— James Madison
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
— Oscar Wilde
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.
— James Allen
The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
— Winston Churchill
The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
— J. Vernon McGee
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
— Aristotle
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
— Tertullian
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
The most common and naive response in the Western world is to ignore the battle or
— Neil Anderson
Ignorance is not bliss; it is defeat. If you are a Christian, you are the target. If
— Neil Anderson